aulaeum

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek αὐλαία (aulaía).

Noun[edit]

aulaeum n (genitive aulaeī); second declension

  1. canopy, covering
  2. curtain (in a theatre)
  3. (in the plural) hangings, drapes, drapery

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative aulaeum aulaea
Genitive aulaeī aulaeōrum
Dative aulaeō aulaeīs
Accusative aulaeum aulaea
Ablative aulaeō aulaeīs
Vocative aulaeum aulaea

Descendants[edit]

  • Albanian: avlëmend

References[edit]

  • aulaeum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • aulaeum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • aulaeum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • aulaeum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • aulaeum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • aulaeum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin